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The Daily Extract™/Proverbium Seniorum™ is a Commonplace Book in the form of a Blog of Quotations, Epigrams, and Excerpts. It can be found at https://proverbiumseniorum.blog/ Engraving: “Odin in the guise of a wanderer," 1886, Georg von Rosen (1843-1923)

Posted on November 13, 2020

“When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.”—Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland; English politician; 1610-1643

Posted on November 12, 2020

“It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.”—Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, 1841-1919

Posted on November 11, 2020

“It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak and another to hear.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862

Posted on November 9, 2020

“I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.”—H.L. Mencken, American satirist, 1880-1956

Posted on November 7, 2020

“The meek shall inherit the earth—but not the mineral rights.”—J. Paul Getty, British petrol-industrialist, 1892-1976

Posted on November 5, 2020

“An honest politician is one who, when he’s bought, stays bought.”—Simon Cameron, American businessman & politician, 1799-1889

Posted on November 4, 2020November 4, 2020

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”—Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister & activist, 1929-1968

Posted on November 3, 2020

“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory….In this war, we know, books are weapons.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt, American president, 1882-1945

Posted on November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

“Those who can lick can bite.”—French proverb

Posted on October 30, 2020

“Of one power even God is deprived, and that is the power of making what is past never to have been.”—Agathon, Athenian poet, 448-400 BC

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